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glu

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Replacing the screen on C3x00 with transflective one
« on: February 25, 2025, 12:10:53 pm »
Yesterday I was coding on the go on my C3200 and I must admit that the screen is almost unreadable in moderate daylight. 

I remembered that some of the xScale based PDAs from the era had a similarly sized screens that were transflective, so I thought that maybe they would work with the LCD controller in Zaurus without any modifications? Did anyone maybe succeed in transplating one into the Zaurus?

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Re: Replacing the screen on C3x00 with transflective one
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2025, 01:28:46 pm »
Dunno, which part?

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Re: Replacing the screen on C3x00 with transflective one
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2025, 07:38:47 am »
I've found e.g. Dell Axim x51v which has VGA transflective screen that is also 3.7 inches (http://www.kodeks.hr/Assets/Pdf/axim_x51v.pdf). The hardware spec is very similar to Zaurus, which makes me think/hope screen swap would be easy as they probably use same pinout/cable.

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Re: Replacing the screen on C3x00 with transflective one
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2025, 08:14:42 am »
Is there any datasheet of the Zaurus LCD?
Pintout? detailed datasheet?
Otherwise is just speculation.